{"id":439930,"date":"2026-08-22T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439930\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:22:09","slug":"del-sol-lions-club-awards-504390-to-help-local-community-members-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439930\/","title":{"rendered":"Del Sol Lions Club awards $504,390 to help local community members \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Del Sol Lions Club President Kristin Salgado presents a MAEGA...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DMT-L-DELSOLLIONSMAEGA4-0827.jpeg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Del Sol Lions Club President Kristin Salgado presents a MAEGA Scholarship, funded by the Lions, to college-bound Zoe Martinez.<br \/>\n(Courtesy of Del Sol Lions Club)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Liz Arizmendi Mendoza, director of the Community Resource Center\u00e2\u0080\u0099s food...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DMT-L-DELSOLLIONSCRC3-0827.jpeg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liz Arizmendi Mendoza, director of the Community Resource Center\u2019s food and nutrition center, accepts a donation from the Del Sol Lions Club\u2019s Caroline Matthews.<br \/>\n(Courtesy of Del Sol Lions Club)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Del Sol Lions Club members celebrate their milestone of giving...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DMT-L-DelSolLionsparty2-0827.jpeg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Del Sol Lions Club members celebrate their milestone of giving to the community.  Standing (left to right) are Jill Cooper, Karl Rudnick, John Page, and Steve McSkimming; seated are Robin Kemp and Paul Salgado.<br \/>\n(Courtesy of Del Sol Lions Club)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>Del Sol Lions Club President Kristin Salgado presents a MAEGA Scholarship, funded by the Lions, to college-bound Zoe Martinez.<br \/>\n(Courtesy of Del Sol Lions Club)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of the Del Sol Lions Club recently held their annual summer party to celebrate a milestone for the service club. The club\u2019s bylaws specify that 100% of funds they raise from the community must go back to the community, and this summer they reached a total of $504,390 donated since the founding of the club 15 years ago, according to Del Sol Lions Club Treasurer John Page, a news release stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions made recent donations to Casa de Amistad\u2019s Casa Coders robotics team and books for the reading program; Solana Beach School District\u2019s scholarships for students in summer enrichment classes and prizes for DiscoveryFest \u201826; the Community Resource Center\u2019s food and nutrition center; MAEGA scholarships; Humble Design\u2019s program to furnish homes for people transitioning out of homelessness into stable housing; St. Leo\u2019s food program; Somos Tias; Meals on Wheels; and Feeding San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Del Sol Lions Club, see delsollions.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Del Sol Lions Club President Kristin Salgado presents a MAEGA Scholarship, funded by the Lions, to college-bound Zoe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[310,311,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-439930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-del-mar-times","tag-del-mar-times-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}